Bosma verdict: justice served

Re Guilty, July 18 Rarely in the Canadian justice system is there such a mountain of circumstantial, forensic and digital evidence amassed in such a relatively short time in a murder trial. Such was the case in the Bosma trial of some five months’ duration in a three-year ordeal that resulted in a guilty verdict coming after five days’ jury deliberation.

But what is significant about that long-awaited outcome is that it is justice being served for the entire community. It was an ordeal that captured and touched the hearts of so many in an inconceivable, incomprehensible loss of life that would see a loving family man murdered for the sake of a motor vehicle.

It is difficult to imagine the agony and heartache of loved ones left behind in such a senseless crime — even more to imagine the strength with which they had to endure. That justice was indeed served can only be seen as one of the justice system’s finest hours. Claude McDonald, Kitchener, Ont. Dellen Millard and Mark Smich have been convicted of Tim Bosma’a murder and been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. So what possible purpose can be served by sending Millard to trial again for two more murders, other than to handsomely reward a bunch of lawyers totally on the public purse?

He cannot be sentenced to death. Is it possible to tack a second 25 years on to the first 25, or would any sentence be served concurrently? It seems like an entire waste of taxpayer money to provide “cash for life” to the lawyers in this case. Edward A. Collis, Burlington